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for a week or ten days or so. Let's begin with St. Dorothy, not often thought of as a patron of gardeners.  Her feast day is February 6, and she is associated with Caesarea, Cappodocia, Turkey circa A.D. 303.  Her patronage covers gardens, horticulture, brides, and florists.  I know a retired florist in California, such a lively and kind person, so I associate the old saint with this dear living saint.

Recently, I bought several pewter saints medals from the Etsy shop of InTheCompanyofSaints. The link is to a Dorothy placque, suitable for outdoors.  He crafts lovely items, in a expressionistic or artisanal style. These are not the faux, blonde saint figures we sometimes must make do with.

See the detail here?  Dorothy reaches for fruit.

Willow oaks all around; these two are to my west, with one in the neighbor's yard and the other a street tree. Lovely scrim for evening.  Welkin is a good old English word for upper sky, or firmament. 

Act 5, Scene 5 

King John

The sun of heaven methought was loath to set,

But stay'd and made the western welkin blush,

 

Last night was the full moon, which I caught in a willow oak in front of my house.  DR, a Canadian cousin, says this looks like lace. She is right.

I found an image I made posted on Pinterest.  This made me laugh a bit.  I commented in the post, to tell the person that I made this and was happy to have found it there.  

Here is the image, at the Keep Calm picture generator.